)At the time of its release, it was rumored that Sinatra's alleged Mafia ties (plus the help of his beautiful wife Ava Gardner) pressured tyrannical Columbia head Harry Cohn to relent and offer he part of Maggio to Sinatra instead of Eli Wallach.] Her metropolitan newspaper,The Bulletin, has recently been bought and is renamedThe New Bulletinby right-wing tycoon and high-pressured financier-publisher D.Other characters include a small-town sheriff, a drunken Irish gardener, a big-game hunter, and two Brazilian leopards.(William A.Poulsen).]Plot SynopsisAs the film opened, an eccentric, tall, wealthy businessman/inventor named Clyde Wynant (Edward Ellis) - the "thin man" of the film title, was in his inventor's workshop - viewed first as a silhouetted shadow cast on a wall.Using cinematic methods ahead of their time and influencing a whole generation of future film-makers, he included a crane shot and spectacular crowd scenes and exterior sets (and live elephants!) for the fantastic Babylonian sequence.